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About Laura Spinella

Laura Spinella is an East Coast author, originally from Long Island, New York. Echo Moon, the series conclusion to her #1 Kindle bestselling novel, Ghost Gifts, is on sale now! She is a two-time RITA finalist, RT Book Reviews finalist. Ghost Gifts is a Audie winner for Best Paranormal Recording.

Foretold, book two in the Ghost Gifts series is named a best book of the month by Amazon Editors!

From Publishers Weekly, a starred review for Unstrung: "In Spinella's wrenching tale of love and loss, one woman must come to terms with her past and the decisions that have shaped her life. Spinella has filled her incredibly emotional novel with multifaceted characters, and nothing is as simple as it seems in this true page-turner." Also from PW, Unstrung named a "Top Ten pick for romance novels, and a most notable and anticipated book for spring."

The award-winning author also writes the Clairmont Series Novels under the pen name L.J. Wilson. Laura lives in the Boston area with her family. Visit her website at http://www.lauraspinella.net to learn more.

Author Updates

What’s New? Well, Just About Everything…
While I’m out getting a new house in a new state with a semi-new life, I thought I’d get a new website. Welcome to Laura Spinella.net, 4.0. That’s an unusual number of websites for an author with eight books, but in full disclosure, my part-time gig happens to be working for AuthorBytes, a web developer. They specialize in author websites the way a skilled surgeon knows anatomy.
Also, after nine years , they’ll do most anything to shut me up.

If you watch NBC’s This Is Us, you might recognize the phrase, “You’re Pittsburgh good.” The words sum up a record producer’s take on Rebecca Pearson’s singing talent. Like most viewers, I lamented into my TV, “Come on, she’s way better than that! I’m a fan. I’d buy her record!”
Of course, no matter how beautifully Rebecca sings, this is her fate. If the record producer gushes and gets Rebecca a gig at the Troubadour… Well, that’s an entirely different show. To avoid the plot twist, s

If Halloween has checklist, my boxes are filled: Old house on hill—√ Ghostly presence residing in house—√ Novels that include ghosts, psychics, and otherworldly elements—√,√, and √√
Black cat? Um… Check that one too! Say hi to timid Gus, the most miscast black cat, who just wants someone to assure him he’s loved. Halloween Ambivalence
My boxes may be in good standing, but as we age Halloween changes. I admit, I could turn out my lights and go to the movies. But

Random psychic, Norwalk, CT
The other day, I spoke to a psychic. Card-carrying, bona fide. I know, right? Psychic phenomenon is my territory—or at least Aubrey Ellis’s, who I have the fun of channeling. This psychic is an author-friend first, someone I have known through the world of books, but long before I penned ethereal words. She has periodically turned up, never at my request, and always when I am at a crossroads. Her missives are amazing.
They range from house his

My agent once told me, “You’ll succeed in this business in one of two ways: Your publisher will put a lot of money behind your book, or you’ll encounter some incredible windfall of publicity.”
Regarding that windfall of publicity, I’ve gone from waiting for Oprah to call to waiting for Ellen to call to waiting for Reese to “Pick me! Pick me!”
Nowadays, of course, social media is the gatekeeper of publicity windfalls. It wasn’t really a thing back in 2009. The tentacles of reac

Recently, I had a Facebook tantrum—the envy of any two-year-old. My fit was sparked by a reviewer whose words about my latest novel, Echo Moon, weren’t necessarily harsh, just a bland 3-star opinion. So what set me off? Why did this benign review dig like bamboo shoots under my nails? Amid the reviewer’s lackluster impressions was the conclusion that I’d “rushed through the writing of Echo Moon,” and that “the book could have benefited from a more aggressive editor.” Say What?
While

Number of published words in 2.5 years: 469,030. Hours at my desk? Impossible to calculate, and if sitting truly is the new smoking, the breathable air in my writing room must be in short supply. I don’t know what made me add those numbers up. Perhaps the odd predicament of arriving at this desk with no viable work in motion. Routine is a rug gone out from under me
Even if yesterday’s writing was crap, even if I wouldn’t read it aloud to the dogs, there’d be something waiting for me t

And Other Amazing Things
Note: Posting a personal blog five days before your book launch is not a great marketing idea.
That said, caution has been tossed to the wind.
Today is a noteworthy day at the Spinella house. Middle daughter, Jamie, graduates law school. Any parent would be proud. I mean, short of having to post bail, we’re all proud of our kids’ accomplishments. But unless you know Jamie—beyond a social media image—unless you were around during the terrific tumultuou

This post ponders how far readers are willing to go. I might not have touched this topic when Foretold was released last fall. But since then, with Echo Moon out one week from today, I have been scratching my head over a reader idiosyncrasy—one that came full circle with a couple of Facebook surveys.
Recently, two polls rolled through my newsfeed. Both had amassed heavy traffic. One poll asked what genre of book a reader was most likely to pick up. The other asked if readers wou

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